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Scootsy Partners with India Book Distributors to Deliver Books in 1 Hour Flat in Mumbai
Online ordering has become the most convenient for of shopping these days. Ordering grocery through apps, which reaches you within 90 minutes was the recent trend that everyone was falling in for with the spread of apps like Grofers and…
Twitter Opens Up Their DIY Ad Platform For SMBs; No Minimum Budget Required!
Twitter finally opened up their advertisement platform for small businesses across the globe, without any minimum budget requirement. This means that the small mom-and-pop store across the street can fairly compete against the global…
Book Lovers Dream! Amazon India Launches Kindle Unlimited at Rs.199 p.m
For those who do not carry hard copies along, and also don't want to invest in eBooks at the same time - a service like Kindle Unlimited is too good to be true. Living in a digital world like ours, where users prefer eBook or mobile…
Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Mozilla Join Hands To Create Next-Gen Open Video Format
It is not often that we come across alliances of a bouquet of big names. This one is out of the rare ones - Google has teamed up with six other tech giants including Microsoft, Amazon, and Mozilla, to form the Alliance for Open Media.…
49 Out Of Top 50 Indian Ecommerce Applications Are Vulnerable To Attacks [Wake Up Call]
As per IAMAI’s research, Indian eCommerce market will cross Rs 1 lakh crore mark by the end of 2015 and within this segment, mobile commerce is reflecting the fastest growth. In 2013, only 10% of Indian phone users had a smartphone, and…
Google New Logo: 8 Factors Which Influenced Google’s Biggest Branding Update In Last 17 Years
Google has updated their logo, which is being hailed as their biggest branding related update in the last 17 years of their existence. The new logo sports a sans-serif typeface, but is still a wordmark with the same set of colors.…
Ashley Madison Stats: 5236 Indians Spent Rs 2.4 Cr Between 2008 And 2015; Mumbai Emerges As The…
“Life Is Short. Have An Affair” – Tagline of AshleyMadison.com The concept of AshleyMadison is something unique and sinful as it propagates extra marital affairs, both discreetly and openly. The website was launched in 2001, and as of now,…
Now, Rent or Buy A Private Jet and Helicopter Online With Droom; Fares Start From Rs 1,48,200
In March this year, when Snapdeal started offering luxury yachts through their online marketplace, we had assumed that India has reached the pinnacle of online luxury market.
But we were wrong then.
Droom, which claims to be…
Google Abusing Its Dominant Position in Search, Online Advertising Market: CCI
Google has been the largest search engine in the world for the longest period of time now. No matter how many search engines come and go, no one can suppress powers of this Internet giant. However, it has also found itself in the news for…
Youtube Delving Into Paid Subscription Model For Music & Exclusive Videos?
Staggering 400 hours of content are uploaded into Youtube every minute; 6% of Google’s overall revenues came from Youtube amounting to $4 billion in 2014.. Yet, Youtube is not profitable.
After paying to content creators (number of…
RIP Adobe Flash: Google, Amazon Dump Auto-Playing Flash Ads, Steve Jobs’ Prophecy Comes True
This is one of those redefining moments for the Internet industry: Effective September 1st, Adobe Flash will be almost history. Google and Amazon, two of the world’s largest Internet companies, have announced that they will no longer…
Google Brings Over 2000 Indian Artworks Online, Opens 70 Virtual Exhibits
The Google Cultural Institute is increasingly helping the Indian culture flourish on a global platform, bringing the best of Indian art and culture online. Google announced that it has added ten new partner institutions to ‘digitise’…
Govt. Announces List of 98 Smart Cities; Bengaluru Surprisingly Ignored; UP,TN Get Maximum…
Urban Development Ministry has finally released the list of 98 smart cities, which will kick off the next wave of planned urbanization in India. As we had shared in June, Rs 48,000 crore has been allocated by the Govt. to build 100…
Facebook launches M; A Rival To Siri, Cortana & Google Now
A new personal assistant called M awaits you at your Facebook Messenger today! The company has begun a limited trial rollout of its virtual assistant M. This can be seen as the company’s first ever such major foray into web search, a…
Google Resumes its Map Maker in 51 Countries, Files Patents For Pothole & Accident Tracking
Google has re-launched it’s map editing app, Map Maker seeming to have recovered from the unfortunate incident that forced a temporary suspension. Three months earlier in April, pranksters got away by adding an Android logo peeing on…
Amazon Enters Refurbished Smartphone Sales With Surpluss Partnership!
Just last month Surplus.in was in the news as it was sketching up plans to cash in on the increasing demand of refurbished goods. It had drawn its own estimates about the growth in the segment in the next 5 years. The global market for…
Flipkart Launches Ping, an in-app Chat Service To Bring Social Online Shopping Experience
In real world, girls hop on shopping spree with friends. This activity is a fun one, believe me you, just like any other social gathering! However, when you shop online, it is a lonely experience, it’s just you and your head in front of…
Microsoft Virtual Personal Assistant Cortana Now Available on Android!
Microsoft’s much talked about person digital-assistant Cortana is now available for Android users in Public Beta. Any Android user can now download Cortana from Play store and install it on their Android phones. iOS version of Cortana…
IAMAI Condemns Zero Rating Plans, Supports Net Neutrality In India; A Set Back For Airtel, Google…
The fight for Net Neutrality in India has taken a positive turn as India’s biggest association of Internet and Mobile companies, IAMAI, has declared that Zero Rating plans are against the free nature of the Web.
In their…
US May Allow F1 Visa Students To Stay & Work For 6 Years After Feb 2016
There is some good news for International students in the USA as their Govt. may allow F1 visa to be treated on par with H-1B visa, enabling them to work and stay in USA for 6 years after completion of their course. Once implemented,…